The prologue levels tripped me out. I was hopping around, hunting for items and figuring out the way forward like it was a 3D platformer. Then I realized the levels are basically structured exactly as such, and from that moment I don't even see the game as a shooter anymore. Eventually the game started to lean back to the shooter parts and it got less interesting by then, but it was fun being 50 Cent, boppin' 'round the hood.
Anyways, please play 50 Cent Blood in the Sand if you haven't, that game is a certified classic.
Anyways, please play 50 Cent Blood in the Sand if you haven't, that game is a certified classic.
You really had to be there for this. The mid 2000s "urban" third person shooter phase. Remember 25 to Life?
Hard to call this a quality title but it was serviceable enough of a tie-in at the time. The Little Italy mission disturbed me as a youth.
Hard to call this a quality title but it was serviceable enough of a tie-in at the time. The Little Italy mission disturbed me as a youth.
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único ponto forte é a trilha sonora.
único ponto forte é a trilha sonora.
Holy relic of American culture
It's a video game with one of my favorite rappers in it. That's it
I got like ten minutes into this game before there was a button prompt that said "steal credit card" and I thought to myself "I think if someone sees me playing this it will be considered a hate crime" and I turned off my PS2.
would have been a 5/5 if the games name was whole lotta red
This review contains spoilers
50 Cent: Bulletproof is a game developed by Genuine Games, a studio that hasn't created anything else? I'm not sure if they created anything else but what they did create was legendary. To those who don't know ANYTHING about rap, or gangsters or gangster video games, 50 Cent is a rapper who became famous in the Early 2000s after getting shot 9 times and surviving, eventually hitting the scene with his major hit album "Get Rich or Die Tryin", and from there expanded the G-Unit Brand to feature shit from clothes, more music (mostly surrounding him and his group which included Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo and Young Buck as well as The Game but that fizzled out into an infamous rap feud later on), a movie of the same name as his first album and THIS game. 50 Cent was a fucking powerhouse back in the day, this game being another part of the G-Unit Legacy.
Now how is this game? It's average, it's not the worst game ever created and it's not the worst feeling game to play; I originally picked it up on PS2 and played it as a kid before playing it on my OG Xbox now, streaming it for friends where I had a fucking blast. It's certainly janky in the way of controls and such and the story/atmosphere even though it was created in an interesting way (bringing I guess what you call Hip Hop Noir vibes?) it's also goofy as fuck. I'm going to start with the story here.
You play as 50 himself as you get a call from your boy K-Dog, who begs you for help as he's being attacked by an unknown force. You go with your people (also Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo and Young Buck) to help out K-Dog, shoot through strange masked men and finally get SHOT 9 TIMES. From there you wake up a while later, in the doc's office with this big dude named Friday. You eventually heal up before hitting the street to get info from your next rap cameos: Eminem as corrupt detective McVicar and arms dealer Grizz (Played by Dr. Dre). Detective McVicar gives him info on a safehouse where K-Dog is at upstate, of which 50 goes and starts shooting shit up only for K-Dog to be found dead, where you take his phone before leaving.
After looking at K-Dog's tattoo and going to pawn shop owner Bugs (and getting your shit back), you trace messages on his phone to a junkyard where a bunch of bikers led by Spider hang out, and it's insinuated that K-Dog was involved in a huge drug smuggling operation. After murdering every single biker, you get documents and then cut off the dude's tattoo before bringing it back to Bugs to learn about a connection to the Triads over in Chinatown.
In Chinatown, you confront the leader before getting into another shootout and taking his money; and on the way home in the subway you get ambushed by more masked men, before the game comically derails the train and you end up in abandoned subway tunnels, killing the leader of these masked men to learn, surprise, they're DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency for those not in the know).
In exchange for more information, Detective McVicar asks you to kill someone for him who was about to testify and you track him to the projects where you kill the fucker in a battle that I felt was iffy. You also meet a character named Booker, a homeless man who points you to a warehouse down at the docks where you shoot through more goons and you learn that the drug smuggling operation includes giant shipments from South America and the Middle East. You get back only for Booker to get shot down in a drive-by, and you go to the funeral to meet his daughter, Alexa, whom you team up with. You meet with McVicar who tells you of the dead body of Eduardo Vasquez, who also has the tattoo and a balloon in his stomach which contains opium, and escapes after shooting more dudes who come to clear up the crime. You also learn that the dude who shot you up was rogue DEA detective Spinoza, before Ediminem gives you the scoop on a recent drug bust in the Italian Mafia that involved Opium and 50 goes to Little Italy to follow up on the lead. 50 Cent and friends get captured and in the gnarliest scene ever his buddies get butchered via chainsaw before Dr. Dre as Grizz comes to save the day and you shoot through more mafioso and finally the boss himself. It turns out the mafia boss himself was the informant and you get tapes discussing business between him and Spinoza as well as a third person: Mohammed, terrorist and drug dealer extraordinaire. Spinoza and Mohammed kidnap Alexa while Edmininemesistoafeminist arrests 50 to keep him out of the way for a huge drug bust against Spinoza. Booker, later revealed to be a CIA agent, gets 50 out of jail and with the rest of the G-Unit (or the ones that aren't chopped to bits), 50 storms the ship containing the drugs. He shoots his way through Mohammed before killing Spinoza and leaving the scene; Booker well...books it before his daughter can recognize him. Alexa smacks 50 on the ass and then 50 goes over to Detective McVicar/Edimenem to rub salt in the wound before walking off to the soundtrack of, guess who, 50 Cent.
There's a lot of 50 Cent so let me toss in my 50 Cents about the plot, it's actually not that bad? I enjoyed the noir aspect of it, the twists of the plot and I certainly didn't see things coming. It's by no means as great or emotionally impactful as say, Max Payne getting revenge for the death of his wife and child but as a fun gangster romp it's good. The characters you see often (mostly 50 and Eminem) are the most engaging, while the others don't really offer much in the way of character development I guess I'm not really surprised much at it since it's really 50 Cent's game. Overall, while certain pieces of the story I had to get reacquainted with by looking it up on Youtube, I remember stuff for the most part.
Gameplay wise it's obviously a third person shooter and you go through the game ya know, shooting people. Once you kill them, you can loot their corpse to get money of varying qualities (and for a lot of the unlockables, which I'll explain in a second, you'll need to grind a good bit to get them). These unlockables mainly consists of buying guns from Grizz of which you can start up levels with loadouts I think, buying executions from a crazy fuck named Popcorn (named Popcorn cause of his obsessions with movies and hanging out in an abandoned movie theater), of which look cool as fuck (with some named after 50 songs like Gunz Come Out) but you don't really do much other than look cool really, as well as buying, get this, more G-Unit related music such as "Bootleg" music videos, medical supplies from Doc Friday (with fucking Vitamin Water as a health pickup LOL) and songs from DJ Whoo Kid. I'll discuss the music videos/songs in the audio/video presentation later, but I want to mention now in between most levels you'll walk around your block where you can go and browse these unlockables, talk to people sometimes, and walk around your apartment.
But to go back for a second to the combat I want to mention that the combat is adequate, it again feels janky and kind of sloppy in certain cases (especially during the boss fight against the guy McVicar asked us to kill), with a strange sort of sway that makes it hard to actually aim at enemies sometimes but overall it's serviceable and you'll probably have played much better or worse games for combat. I don't remember encountering any bugs persay (other than the pawn shop owner lol) so I can't really speak much on that but on my playthrough for the most part everything was fine. It's not gonna be as good as GTA or something and truth be told this game is more akin to The Punisher but worse.
The Audio/Video Presentation I think is where the game shines, though in a hilarious way. If this was a normal gangster game I would just give it three stars but this extra half is for two reasons, Number 1: I like 50 Cent/G-Unit's music so I don't mind listening to that shit while shooting dudes and Number 2: Because the amount of self advertisement, while understandable is fucking hilarious. I'm gonna list some examples from what I mentioned earlier: Doc Friday sells the usual pain pills and med kits but he also sells Vitamin Water? Wanna know why? Cause 50 had a huge deal with them in the early to mid 2000s and was making big money off of it brand wise. DJ Whoo Kid sells as I said before, Bootleg 50 Cent/G-Unit music videos and songs, so essentially 50 is buying bootlegs of his own work from a meta standpoint. These songs/videos are mostly old stuff (Like 50's first two albums, G-Unit's first album, and the first solo album from Lloyd Banks, Young Buck and Tony Yayo though with less songs of course; as well as instrumentals for a lot of them). Good thing is once you buy them you keep them, and can switch songs on the road while shooting gangsters and masked DEA; or if you want you could take a break and watch Tony Yayo's So Seductive music video compressed to hell. In 50's apartment, in the music studio are literally a bunch of G-Unit albums to finish off the constant plugging. As mentioned, there are original songs as well which are more expensive in game to buy but are worth it as they're actually pretty good, with Maybe We Crazy and Pimpin' Part 2 being the highlights for me. This game SCREAMS gangster rap and if you love that shit like I do, you'll love it here. If you don't, then I'm not sure why you're playing this game but nonetheless. As always, visual presentation is fine, the usual PS2/Xbox era graphics but they have looked better in other games though I have noticed Eminem and 50 looking better than the rest but I don't know if it's because G-Unit is kind of an afterthought? Because truth be told again you don't really get much in the way of character from them but nonetheless.
Final Thoughts:
This is a funny ass game to me and honestly a guilty pleasure of mine, and when I hear of people saying this is one of the first game's ever I'm not buying it. Sure, it's goofy as fuck, and the controls aren't the best; but the story is actually decent and the gangster rap self plug soundtrack is immaculate in my honest opinion. I streamed this game for friends a couple of years back and I honestly had a fun time, and truth be told I actually wouldn't mind going back and playing again? It's not a classic, and 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand apparently improved on a lot of shit but overall it's not a bad time. I picked it up for my Xbox OG dirt cheap, so I'm gonna guess that most copies of this game will run that way for you too? If you want, give it a try, but know that it's a flawed ass game.
Now how is this game? It's average, it's not the worst game ever created and it's not the worst feeling game to play; I originally picked it up on PS2 and played it as a kid before playing it on my OG Xbox now, streaming it for friends where I had a fucking blast. It's certainly janky in the way of controls and such and the story/atmosphere even though it was created in an interesting way (bringing I guess what you call Hip Hop Noir vibes?) it's also goofy as fuck. I'm going to start with the story here.
You play as 50 himself as you get a call from your boy K-Dog, who begs you for help as he's being attacked by an unknown force. You go with your people (also Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo and Young Buck) to help out K-Dog, shoot through strange masked men and finally get SHOT 9 TIMES. From there you wake up a while later, in the doc's office with this big dude named Friday. You eventually heal up before hitting the street to get info from your next rap cameos: Eminem as corrupt detective McVicar and arms dealer Grizz (Played by Dr. Dre). Detective McVicar gives him info on a safehouse where K-Dog is at upstate, of which 50 goes and starts shooting shit up only for K-Dog to be found dead, where you take his phone before leaving.
After looking at K-Dog's tattoo and going to pawn shop owner Bugs (and getting your shit back), you trace messages on his phone to a junkyard where a bunch of bikers led by Spider hang out, and it's insinuated that K-Dog was involved in a huge drug smuggling operation. After murdering every single biker, you get documents and then cut off the dude's tattoo before bringing it back to Bugs to learn about a connection to the Triads over in Chinatown.
In Chinatown, you confront the leader before getting into another shootout and taking his money; and on the way home in the subway you get ambushed by more masked men, before the game comically derails the train and you end up in abandoned subway tunnels, killing the leader of these masked men to learn, surprise, they're DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency for those not in the know).
In exchange for more information, Detective McVicar asks you to kill someone for him who was about to testify and you track him to the projects where you kill the fucker in a battle that I felt was iffy. You also meet a character named Booker, a homeless man who points you to a warehouse down at the docks where you shoot through more goons and you learn that the drug smuggling operation includes giant shipments from South America and the Middle East. You get back only for Booker to get shot down in a drive-by, and you go to the funeral to meet his daughter, Alexa, whom you team up with. You meet with McVicar who tells you of the dead body of Eduardo Vasquez, who also has the tattoo and a balloon in his stomach which contains opium, and escapes after shooting more dudes who come to clear up the crime. You also learn that the dude who shot you up was rogue DEA detective Spinoza, before Ediminem gives you the scoop on a recent drug bust in the Italian Mafia that involved Opium and 50 goes to Little Italy to follow up on the lead. 50 Cent and friends get captured and in the gnarliest scene ever his buddies get butchered via chainsaw before Dr. Dre as Grizz comes to save the day and you shoot through more mafioso and finally the boss himself. It turns out the mafia boss himself was the informant and you get tapes discussing business between him and Spinoza as well as a third person: Mohammed, terrorist and drug dealer extraordinaire. Spinoza and Mohammed kidnap Alexa while Edmininemesistoafeminist arrests 50 to keep him out of the way for a huge drug bust against Spinoza. Booker, later revealed to be a CIA agent, gets 50 out of jail and with the rest of the G-Unit (or the ones that aren't chopped to bits), 50 storms the ship containing the drugs. He shoots his way through Mohammed before killing Spinoza and leaving the scene; Booker well...books it before his daughter can recognize him. Alexa smacks 50 on the ass and then 50 goes over to Detective McVicar/Edimenem to rub salt in the wound before walking off to the soundtrack of, guess who, 50 Cent.
There's a lot of 50 Cent so let me toss in my 50 Cents about the plot, it's actually not that bad? I enjoyed the noir aspect of it, the twists of the plot and I certainly didn't see things coming. It's by no means as great or emotionally impactful as say, Max Payne getting revenge for the death of his wife and child but as a fun gangster romp it's good. The characters you see often (mostly 50 and Eminem) are the most engaging, while the others don't really offer much in the way of character development I guess I'm not really surprised much at it since it's really 50 Cent's game. Overall, while certain pieces of the story I had to get reacquainted with by looking it up on Youtube, I remember stuff for the most part.
Gameplay wise it's obviously a third person shooter and you go through the game ya know, shooting people. Once you kill them, you can loot their corpse to get money of varying qualities (and for a lot of the unlockables, which I'll explain in a second, you'll need to grind a good bit to get them). These unlockables mainly consists of buying guns from Grizz of which you can start up levels with loadouts I think, buying executions from a crazy fuck named Popcorn (named Popcorn cause of his obsessions with movies and hanging out in an abandoned movie theater), of which look cool as fuck (with some named after 50 songs like Gunz Come Out) but you don't really do much other than look cool really, as well as buying, get this, more G-Unit related music such as "Bootleg" music videos, medical supplies from Doc Friday (with fucking Vitamin Water as a health pickup LOL) and songs from DJ Whoo Kid. I'll discuss the music videos/songs in the audio/video presentation later, but I want to mention now in between most levels you'll walk around your block where you can go and browse these unlockables, talk to people sometimes, and walk around your apartment.
But to go back for a second to the combat I want to mention that the combat is adequate, it again feels janky and kind of sloppy in certain cases (especially during the boss fight against the guy McVicar asked us to kill), with a strange sort of sway that makes it hard to actually aim at enemies sometimes but overall it's serviceable and you'll probably have played much better or worse games for combat. I don't remember encountering any bugs persay (other than the pawn shop owner lol) so I can't really speak much on that but on my playthrough for the most part everything was fine. It's not gonna be as good as GTA or something and truth be told this game is more akin to The Punisher but worse.
The Audio/Video Presentation I think is where the game shines, though in a hilarious way. If this was a normal gangster game I would just give it three stars but this extra half is for two reasons, Number 1: I like 50 Cent/G-Unit's music so I don't mind listening to that shit while shooting dudes and Number 2: Because the amount of self advertisement, while understandable is fucking hilarious. I'm gonna list some examples from what I mentioned earlier: Doc Friday sells the usual pain pills and med kits but he also sells Vitamin Water? Wanna know why? Cause 50 had a huge deal with them in the early to mid 2000s and was making big money off of it brand wise. DJ Whoo Kid sells as I said before, Bootleg 50 Cent/G-Unit music videos and songs, so essentially 50 is buying bootlegs of his own work from a meta standpoint. These songs/videos are mostly old stuff (Like 50's first two albums, G-Unit's first album, and the first solo album from Lloyd Banks, Young Buck and Tony Yayo though with less songs of course; as well as instrumentals for a lot of them). Good thing is once you buy them you keep them, and can switch songs on the road while shooting gangsters and masked DEA; or if you want you could take a break and watch Tony Yayo's So Seductive music video compressed to hell. In 50's apartment, in the music studio are literally a bunch of G-Unit albums to finish off the constant plugging. As mentioned, there are original songs as well which are more expensive in game to buy but are worth it as they're actually pretty good, with Maybe We Crazy and Pimpin' Part 2 being the highlights for me. This game SCREAMS gangster rap and if you love that shit like I do, you'll love it here. If you don't, then I'm not sure why you're playing this game but nonetheless. As always, visual presentation is fine, the usual PS2/Xbox era graphics but they have looked better in other games though I have noticed Eminem and 50 looking better than the rest but I don't know if it's because G-Unit is kind of an afterthought? Because truth be told again you don't really get much in the way of character from them but nonetheless.
Final Thoughts:
This is a funny ass game to me and honestly a guilty pleasure of mine, and when I hear of people saying this is one of the first game's ever I'm not buying it. Sure, it's goofy as fuck, and the controls aren't the best; but the story is actually decent and the gangster rap self plug soundtrack is immaculate in my honest opinion. I streamed this game for friends a couple of years back and I honestly had a fun time, and truth be told I actually wouldn't mind going back and playing again? It's not a classic, and 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand apparently improved on a lot of shit but overall it's not a bad time. I picked it up for my Xbox OG dirt cheap, so I'm gonna guess that most copies of this game will run that way for you too? If you want, give it a try, but know that it's a flawed ass game.
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As a media hub for fans in the pre-Youtube days, Bulletproof is kind of awesome. I was legitimately so excited to be able to play these music videos whenever I wanted -- as alien as that sounds now.
But beyond that, this is a pretty damn horrendous third person shooter and I can't believe I actually enjoyed the video game aspect of this package as a teenager. 50 moves at a glacial pace and you have to turn aim sensitivity all the way up to get a remotely decent aiming experience. There's some cool ideas on paper like taking human shields, interrogating enemies, and slick finishing moves -- but they're all either useless or broken in execution. Likewise there are some level design ideas that sound okay but the mechanics are just not well implemented at all. The cutscenes and story are actually pretty slick all things considered but lack subtitles so even they can't be properly enjoyed.
Oh well, I'll always have the memory of being 14 and watching the Poppin Them Thangs video on a loop.
But beyond that, this is a pretty damn horrendous third person shooter and I can't believe I actually enjoyed the video game aspect of this package as a teenager. 50 moves at a glacial pace and you have to turn aim sensitivity all the way up to get a remotely decent aiming experience. There's some cool ideas on paper like taking human shields, interrogating enemies, and slick finishing moves -- but they're all either useless or broken in execution. Likewise there are some level design ideas that sound okay but the mechanics are just not well implemented at all. The cutscenes and story are actually pretty slick all things considered but lack subtitles so even they can't be properly enjoyed.
Oh well, I'll always have the memory of being 14 and watching the Poppin Them Thangs video on a loop.
I'm not a fan of 50 Cent or the rap genre of music, I'm a metal head, however as a 3rd person shooter, this game was fun for what it was, it wasn't groundbreaking by any means but I enjoyed it.
The graphics looked quite good for the game's age on the Xbox.
The gameplay could be a bit clunky at times but never frustratingly bad.
Worth a play if you can pick the game up cheap I'd say and you just wish to chill with a game for a few hours.
I would be up for playing Blood in the Sand now :)
7/10
The graphics looked quite good for the game's age on the Xbox.
The gameplay could be a bit clunky at times but never frustratingly bad.
Worth a play if you can pick the game up cheap I'd say and you just wish to chill with a game for a few hours.
I would be up for playing Blood in the Sand now :)
7/10
rapper game
kanye is better
I'll probably play through this whole thing for a stream or something at some point. The game's really blurry and the camera acceleration is just god awful. It's really hard to properly aim.
In the immortal words of (fictonal) fifty: "Bitch took my skull".
Join fifty and his G-unit compatriots as they go on an adventure to get rich or die trying. It was a pretty fun game at the time and I can't imagine there's a lot of fun to be had to this day outside of having a laugh at the time capsule nature of it. It's a bog standard third person shooter with some over the top characters. It was part of the 50cent cinematic universe, since I'm pretty sure there was also a 50cent related movie that came out around the same time. Anyway, I'm very glad to remember this exists and honestly in terms of tie in games, you can do a lot worse.
Join fifty and his G-unit compatriots as they go on an adventure to get rich or die trying. It was a pretty fun game at the time and I can't imagine there's a lot of fun to be had to this day outside of having a laugh at the time capsule nature of it. It's a bog standard third person shooter with some over the top characters. It was part of the 50cent cinematic universe, since I'm pretty sure there was also a 50cent related movie that came out around the same time. Anyway, I'm very glad to remember this exists and honestly in terms of tie in games, you can do a lot worse.
It's probably hot garbage but I remember enjoying this one as a kid.
kino
THIS IS A REVIEW FOR THE PSP VERSION ONLY!!! NOTHING REFLECTS MY THOUGHTS ON THE CONSOLE VERSIONS SINCE I HAVEN'T PLAYED THOSE!!!
I wanted to like this game more than I ended up doing. The first half of the game is pretty fun. You just run around areas blasting dudes away with various weapons until a boss shows up. Maybe you'll have to search for something or destroy X number of objects first, but it's fun. It has some jank and can get a bit repetitive, but I didn't really mind that. That's not to mention the massive amount of instant kill animations the game has for when you run up to a guy and press the square button. There's also TONS of fan service for those that love 50 Cent (I never really listened to his music before and my playthrough of this had me listening to the game score more than the licensed music just cause I didn't want to spend money on it, but I'll get to that later). There's tons of songs and music videos you can unlock, cosmetic clothing items from 50 Cent's line of clothes, you can even make a custom playlist from the songs you unlock. It's pretty cool how much they put in for fans.
However, as the game progressed I started liking it less and less. By the, I wanna say, halfway point (where you're fighting through the subway and train cars), the game starts throwing more enemies at you than I felt I was reasonably equipped to handle. What made this worse was you aren't always guaranteed to go back to the Hood (the game's main hub) between levels even if a cutscene shows you being there. Even when you are there, the only things worth spending money on are healing items, ammo, and armor (helpful tip, don't do what I did and waste money on any armor besides the 300% one cause it doesn't refill the gauge like health, instead you're just stuck with worse armor). Despite constantly looting every enemy I killed, I constantly felt like I was running low on funds for anything else which is why I never bought any music or cosmetics. Wasn't till the last few levels where I had enough after filling up to buy the instant kill animations. You CAN go back to the Hood whenever you want, but doing so will reset you back to the start of a level and some levels can get pretty long.
The story is fine for the most part, even if it's presented in kind of a funny way that you could really only get from a licensed game released during this time. It's pretty much just 50 Cent wants to get revenge on the person who killed his friend and tried to kill him. There's a lot more that goes into it, but what made me enjoy nearly every cutscene was all the characters. They're just really funny and have some hilarious designs. I also laughed any time this game had like several of the same character model moving around to show the passage of time or one used that's supposed to be a ghost, but he just looks normal. Although I will say 50 Cent's acting leaves a lot to be desired. Like everyone else sounds like they're having fun that day in the recording booth while 50 sounds like he just got out of bed.
It's a decent enough game more for fans of 50 Cent than anything, but man does it drop hard in that second act. I struggle to really recommend it to anyone. Maybe the console versions are better, but I got no idea. I know this game got a sequel and maybe one day I'll play that, but not anytime soon.
I wanted to like this game more than I ended up doing. The first half of the game is pretty fun. You just run around areas blasting dudes away with various weapons until a boss shows up. Maybe you'll have to search for something or destroy X number of objects first, but it's fun. It has some jank and can get a bit repetitive, but I didn't really mind that. That's not to mention the massive amount of instant kill animations the game has for when you run up to a guy and press the square button. There's also TONS of fan service for those that love 50 Cent (I never really listened to his music before and my playthrough of this had me listening to the game score more than the licensed music just cause I didn't want to spend money on it, but I'll get to that later). There's tons of songs and music videos you can unlock, cosmetic clothing items from 50 Cent's line of clothes, you can even make a custom playlist from the songs you unlock. It's pretty cool how much they put in for fans.
However, as the game progressed I started liking it less and less. By the, I wanna say, halfway point (where you're fighting through the subway and train cars), the game starts throwing more enemies at you than I felt I was reasonably equipped to handle. What made this worse was you aren't always guaranteed to go back to the Hood (the game's main hub) between levels even if a cutscene shows you being there. Even when you are there, the only things worth spending money on are healing items, ammo, and armor (helpful tip, don't do what I did and waste money on any armor besides the 300% one cause it doesn't refill the gauge like health, instead you're just stuck with worse armor). Despite constantly looting every enemy I killed, I constantly felt like I was running low on funds for anything else which is why I never bought any music or cosmetics. Wasn't till the last few levels where I had enough after filling up to buy the instant kill animations. You CAN go back to the Hood whenever you want, but doing so will reset you back to the start of a level and some levels can get pretty long.
The story is fine for the most part, even if it's presented in kind of a funny way that you could really only get from a licensed game released during this time. It's pretty much just 50 Cent wants to get revenge on the person who killed his friend and tried to kill him. There's a lot more that goes into it, but what made me enjoy nearly every cutscene was all the characters. They're just really funny and have some hilarious designs. I also laughed any time this game had like several of the same character model moving around to show the passage of time or one used that's supposed to be a ghost, but he just looks normal. Although I will say 50 Cent's acting leaves a lot to be desired. Like everyone else sounds like they're having fun that day in the recording booth while 50 sounds like he just got out of bed.
It's a decent enough game more for fans of 50 Cent than anything, but man does it drop hard in that second act. I struggle to really recommend it to anyone. Maybe the console versions are better, but I got no idea. I know this game got a sequel and maybe one day I'll play that, but not anytime soon.
I regret the day I thought of playing this game, it's so terrible I didn't even beat it
can we get an kanye west game?
Invincibility
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "ny'sfinestyo" as a code (note the required apostrophe). Note: You will still die if you fall from a high place.
All weapons
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "gotthemrachets" as a code to get all weapons.
Infinite ammunition
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "GrizzSpecial" as a code to get unlimited ammunition.
Stronger weapons
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "the hub is broken" as a code to enable Mike mode.
Bloodhound Counter Kill
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "gunrunner" as a code.
Empty n' Clips Counter Kill
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "workout" as a code.
G'd Up Counter Kill
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "GoodDieYoung" as a code.
Guillotine Counter Kill
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "GettingDropped" as a code.
Mountain Climber Counter Kill
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "TimetoThrowDown" as a code.
Southside Counter Kill
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "HardcoreG$hit" as a code.
Wanksta Counter Kill
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "AintGotNothin" as a code.
Action 26
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "orangejuice" as a code.
All songs
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "graballthat50" as a code to unlock all songs.
All music videos
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "hookmeup50" as a code to unlock all music videos.
I'm A Rider, Maybe We Crazy, and Pimp PT2 songs
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "50bpexclusives" as a code to unlock the I'm A Rider, Maybe We Crazy, and Pimp PT2 songs.
So Seductive song
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "killa1" as a code to unlock the So Seductive song. -From: Game213dogg@aol.com
My Buddy video
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "sayhellotomylittlefriend" as a code to unlock the My Buddy video.
Tony Yayo So Seductive video
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "yayoshome" as a code to unlock the Tony Yayo So Seductive video.
Easy money
Grab your opponent and interrogate him until he drops a credit card or his wallet. Then, execute him and choose to steal. He will either give you a credit card or wallet, depending on what you got the first time. Normally when you kill an enemy and steal from them, you will only get either a wallet or a credit card, and not both. Additionally, get a close range head shot to get $5,000 or more in credit cards or money, jewelry, and armor depending whether you need it or not.
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "ny'sfinestyo" as a code (note the required apostrophe). Note: You will still die if you fall from a high place.
All weapons
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "gotthemrachets" as a code to get all weapons.
Infinite ammunition
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "GrizzSpecial" as a code to get unlimited ammunition.
Stronger weapons
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "the hub is broken" as a code to enable Mike mode.
Bloodhound Counter Kill
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "gunrunner" as a code.
Empty n' Clips Counter Kill
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "workout" as a code.
G'd Up Counter Kill
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "GoodDieYoung" as a code.
Guillotine Counter Kill
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "GettingDropped" as a code.
Mountain Climber Counter Kill
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "TimetoThrowDown" as a code.
Southside Counter Kill
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "HardcoreG$hit" as a code.
Wanksta Counter Kill
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "AintGotNothin" as a code.
Action 26
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "orangejuice" as a code.
All songs
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "graballthat50" as a code to unlock all songs.
All music videos
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "hookmeup50" as a code to unlock all music videos.
I'm A Rider, Maybe We Crazy, and Pimp PT2 songs
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "50bpexclusives" as a code to unlock the I'm A Rider, Maybe We Crazy, and Pimp PT2 songs.
So Seductive song
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "killa1" as a code to unlock the So Seductive song. -From: Game213dogg@aol.com
My Buddy video
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "sayhellotomylittlefriend" as a code to unlock the My Buddy video.
Tony Yayo So Seductive video
Pause the game, select "Options", then choose "Cheats". Enter "yayoshome" as a code to unlock the Tony Yayo So Seductive video.
Easy money
Grab your opponent and interrogate him until he drops a credit card or his wallet. Then, execute him and choose to steal. He will either give you a credit card or wallet, depending on what you got the first time. Normally when you kill an enemy and steal from them, you will only get either a wallet or a credit card, and not both. Additionally, get a close range head shot to get $5,000 or more in credit cards or money, jewelry, and armor depending whether you need it or not.
This is the funniest game ever made
Full video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QEZg29QMFA
50 Cent Bulletproof walked so 50 Cent Blood on the Sand could run. Really not worth your time or money these days, just skip it.
50 Cent Bulletproof walked so 50 Cent Blood on the Sand could run. Really not worth your time or money these days, just skip it.
I would shit on this game more if it didn't pave the road to Blood in the Sand.
50 cent kucek
My buddy, my buddy
Wherever I go, he go
Wherever I go, he go